I guess a collector wouldn't. Looking at it from the point of a DXer/SWLer,
it doesn't make sense. The new Icom would seem to be a better receiver for
the money, but I haven't used one as yet. I use my xcvr as my SW rxvr and
it works quite well, at least when it has an antenna tied to it.
B

"Roadie" wrote in message
oups.com...
More than anything else it is a non-consumer radio, one designed for
the military, so it has the look that collectors like. And there were
few of them made. Will it catch more stations that a reasonably
priced tabletop? In one word - no. But collectors don't spend $6,000
on a radio because it will catch more stations than any other.

On Mar 15, 8:45 pm, "Brian O" wrote:
Can I ask a dumb question? I'm looking over the specs and they don't seem
inordinately very good compared to other radios. What makes this radio so
worth the price?. The SSB sensitivity is not as good as the radio I have.
The selectivity seems to be better but with SW signals at least 5khz wide
that wont make much difference if your sensitivity is not low enough. Does
it have variable IF bandpass? Or variable audio filtering? Is it because
of
the tuning steps? 1 hz steps seems to be overkill. I mean what kind of
reception warrants those kind of specs especially with mediocre
sensitivity?
I'm listening....
B

"dxAce" wrote in message

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Dan Robinson wrote:

Not sure what price it finally went for as
there was only one bidder, but it was listed
BUY IT NOW at $5995....this for a NRD-302A
NEW IN BOX -- probably the rarest of the rare...

One bid, eBay shows it as $6000.000. Item # 170090901158

http://cgi.ebay.com/JRC-NRD-302A-Rec...spkr-cabinet_W...

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